3D Reflective Webs Photo Effect by DJI

3D Reflective Webs Photo Effect by DJI
http://www.filterforge.com/filters/13128.html

And the result.

And the result.

With the result.

This filter is WOW ! And it can be use with all images or photos. Lot of possibility my friend and your examples are so nice.

It gives me the idea to use it with an alpha bg for the final and apply this "final"on another image. Awesome filter DJI !

Thank you both very much for your comments.

Congratulations DJI! Very good filter.

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The problem is this. It can only take the tiniest bit of shadow before it looks like the background is bulging through the holes.

It kinda requires a bit of restructuring. The thing right now is that it's effectively a filter that utilizes the height parameter to crank the shadows or the appearance of thickness. Although ultimately this has severe limitations due to the way FilterForge handles height, global illumination, etc.

You can of course really push it with the lighting tab, you can add point lights to your scene of course to emphasize shadow and highlight but this doesn't really give control to you. This also relies on your height map, which in this filter, needs a helping hand.

One of the precautionary things to remember is that the height map input is strictly grayscale, in other words, color input would be converted to grayscale. It's generally "ok" to input plain color since FilterForge is smart about that, but on the down side since it gets converted from one color space to another through some algorithm, you do lack control over the height parameter. This often results in undesirable artifacts or difficulties controlling the filter when you want to do a bit more later.

So that was a bit of technical stuff for everybody.

As for fun, I've went in and just modified the filter to some degree to what SpaceRay was talking about. I'll just... upload the mod sometime soon here. In general, I'm trying to keep the original core structure to the best of my ability while trying to construct SpaceRay features lol. So with respect!

I love this filter much although I have not had time to use it, but love much the organic web it can make

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DJI wrote: And SpaceRay,I'll definitely think about your idea. smile:)---Ok. So it's about a 1/2 hour later and i've put a shadow on this filter.The problem is this. It can only take the tiniest bit of shadow before it looks like the background is bulging through the holes.

Is there any news for the shadow as skybase has shown very well?

thanks